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Luz Chavez, right, hands out "Know Your Rights" information to a woman in a laundry as Chavez and three volunteers leaflet businesses along Cermak Road in Berwyn on Jan. 30, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

‘They will not break us’: Chicago becomes an epicenter of resistance amid Trump’s immigration crackdown

February 3, 2025 at 10:11 a.m.

As President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown grips the Chicago area in fear, a burgeoning resistance movement has also emerged here to challenge — as well as evade — immigration enforcement.

Sanjuana Ramos, left, sits on her sofa and cries following the arrest of her husband, Raul Lopez, that morning by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force on Jan. 28, 2025, in Elgin. On the right is Bethzy Lopez, 18, daughter of Raul Lopez, who said that shortly after 7 a.m. their door was broken down, family members were handcuffed and made to leave the house, and Raul Lopez was arrested and taken away to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement staging facility in Broadview. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

‘Why him?’ Undocumented father gets swept up, turned over to ICE during operation targeting someone else

January 30, 2025 at 3:41 p.m.

An undocumented Elgin father who has been in the country for more than two decades was swept up in a fugitive investigation targeting his stepson, a scene that was captured...

Phil McGraw, a la izquierda, conocido como Dr. Phil, en una imagen de un video que publicó en su cuenta X, caminando con el “zar de la frontera” Tom Homan, el 26 de enero de 2025, durante una reunión con agentes federales de inmigración en Chicago. (Dr. Phil)

‘Eres el Dr. Phil’. La personalidad de la televisión dice que participó en las redadas de inmigración en Chicago por “transparencia”

January 29, 2025 at 5:49 p.m.

Phil McGraw dijo que estaba en Chicago para brindar “transparencia” a “una operación quirúrgica muy específica” dirigida a personas con antecedentes penales que se encuentran en el país sin autorización...

Gloria Marquez picks up her daughter Natalie, 9, after school from Hamline School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood where reports of ICE agents caused fear in the community, Jan. 27, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

What happened at Hamline Elementary on Friday? Mistaken ICE report in Chicago is still sparking fear.

January 30, 2025 at 5:51 p.m.

Many questions remain about what happened at Hamline Elementary when Chicago Public Schools mistook Secret Service agents for immigration enforcement.

Phil McGraw, left, known as Dr. Phil, in an image from a video he posted to his X account walking with "border czar" Tom Homan on Jan. 26, 2025 during an embed with federal immigration agents in Chicago. (Dr. Phil)

‘You’re Dr. Phil.’ TV personality says he joined immigration raids in Chicago for ‘transparency.’

January 28, 2025 at 10:38 a.m.

The presence of "Dr. Phil" at Chicago federal immigration raids raises questions about the propriety of the operation and highlights a presidency that favors reality TV.

Un titular de Associated Press sobre las nuevas políticas de inmigración de la administración Trump se muestra en las pantallas de información en el Centro de Estudiantes Este de la UIC el 22 de enero de 2025. Se les ha ordenado a los profesores y al personal de la UIC que se comuniquen con la policía del campus si los funcionarios federales de inmigración intentan ingresar a las aulas y edificios llenos de estudiantes para preguntar sobre la ciudadanía o el estado migratorio. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Escuelas, iglesias y hospitales de Chicago prometen proteger a inmigrantes que se encuentran ilegalmente en Estados Unidos luego de que Trump levantara prohibición que limitaba arrestos por inmigración en espacios seguros

January 27, 2025 at 12:19 p.m.

Un día después de que el presidente Donald Trump desechara las políticas que limitaban las detenciones de inmigrantes en lugares sensibles, como iglesias, escuelas y hospitales, una ola de miedo...

Afuera de Home Depot el jornalero “Pedro” busca trabajo en Cicero, el 21 de enero de 2025. (Antonio Pérez/baiduhai)

‘La gente se esconde’. Inmigrantes de Chicago se quedaron en casa, no fueron a trabajar para evitar posibles arrestos por parte de ICE

January 27, 2025 at 11:35 a.m.

En medio de las amenazas del presidente Donald Trump de arrestos generalizados y deportaciones masivas, los trabajadores indocumentados en Chicago faltaron al trabajo para evitar ser atrapados por agentes de...

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